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WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from the federal government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a nationwide ban if it defies a government order to sell to an American company — unless the popular social media app can convince a high-powered panel that its data security restructuring plan sufficiently guards against [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy maintained its resilience from October through December despite rising interest rates, growing at a 2.6 percent annual pace, the federal government said late last week in a slight downgrade from its previous estimate. Consumer spending, however, which drives most of the economy's growth, was revised sharply down. The government [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the federal budget standoff, the majority of adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs. Six in 10 adults say the government spends too much money, but majorities also favor more funding [...]
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok over its Chinese ownership and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of young voters, a group that's largely been in his corner. Youth turnout surged in the three elections since Donald Trump was elected president [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said last week it will attempt to break up the network that runs the nation's organ transplant system as part of a broader modernization effort. More people than ever are getting new organs, with a record 42,888 transplants last year — but that's not nearly enough to meet the demand. [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year's legislative session hoping to add narrow exceptions to one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, armed with the belief that most people — even in conservative Tennessee — reject extremes on the issue. Tennessee law requires doctors to prove in court [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — Rejon Taylor hoped the election of Joe Biden, the first president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, would mean a more sympathetic look at his claims that racial bias and other trial errors landed him on federal death row in Terre Haute, Ind. Two years later, however, Justice [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — The voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except that these voters in the first round of the mayoral election were all wearing the same beige smocks. The security at this polling place wasn't intended to keep disrupters and campaigners out, but the voters in. When first-time voter [...]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration and industry groups pledged last week to promote logging practices and research intended to protect imperiled species on private forest lands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and two forest products organizations signed a memorandum promising cooperation on projects that could boost struggling populations of pollinating insects, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden likes to say he's the most pro-union president in history. When he announces his expected re-election campaign in the coming weeks, he'll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers. Workers on his 2024 campaign will be unionized, political allies say, making him the first president to run [...]